Re: [PATCHv2 5/5] irqchip/GICv3: make reschedule-ipi light weight

From: Marc Zyngier
Date: Wed Sep 29 2021 - 03:24:39 EST


On Fri, 24 Sep 2021 14:28:37 +0100,
Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> To achieve the light weight as
> DEFINE_IDTENTRY_SYSVEC_SIMPLE(sysvec_reschedule_ipi) on x86, it had
> better treat irqnr differently at the frontend. And let IPI_RESCHEDULE
> call __irq_enter_raw() instead of irq_enter_rcu().
>
> Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Yuichi Ito <ito-yuichi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
> drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c | 15 +++++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c
> index 906538fa8771..593d4539a209 100644
> --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c
> +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c
> @@ -709,6 +709,9 @@ static void gic_handle_nmi(struct pt_regs *regs)
> gic_deactivate_unhandled(irqnr);
> }
>
> +/* RESCHEDULE IPI hwirq nr is 0, and the only raw one */
> +static unsigned long raw_interrupt_mask = 1;

I'm afraid you have the wrong end of the stick. This isn't a GIC
property. This is an architecture decision, and only the architecture
can expose what they want.

M.

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